I would like to purchase a LCD monitor and hook it up to my tivo and some speakers, they are so much cheaper than LCD tvs. Is this possible? Do I need some type of converter? Do LCD monitors all have the same inputs? Help please!
yes, but you need an external TV tuner so you can pick the channel, etc. go to radio shack or any electronics store and they should be able to fix you up. the downside is you wont get true HD on an lcd monitor. it's still cheaper than a regular tv tho
I think LCD TV can be used as a monitor but LCD monitor's can't be used as TV's.They don't have the proper adapters in the back. The thing with getting a tuner card is that the picture is usually pretty bad.
It depends on the cable service you got your Tivo hooked up to. If your cable service is standard-definition (uses coax or composite to connect to a TV), then you can't use a computer monitor. If you have digital HDTV cable service and the cable box has a DVI or HDMI output, you can use any HDCP-compliant LCD computer monitor to display the HD cable box's video output. The video signal carried by HDMI is in fact single-link DVI, so a DVI-to-HDMI cable can be used to connect an HDMI cable box to a DVI monitor. And cable boxes ARE TV tuners (which is why they have remotes for changing channels), so the monitor does NOT require a tuner on-board to work with an HD cable box. It merely displays whatever DVI signal the HD cable box is telling it to display. Since broadcast-quality High Definition TV signals are at least 720p (1280x720 resolution), pretty much any LCD monitor can display 720p, as long as it is HDCP-compliant so it will work with the digital HD cable box. If you want 1080i broadcast HD, you should get an HDCP-compliant monitor that can display 1920x1080 resolution. Keep in mind most computer monitors have no speakers. You will have to hook up a separate set of speakers to the cable box to get audio. Hope this helps.
